Boris laughed. His student was certainly an active one. Sometimes, he wasn't sure whether the lad had enough patience to work with stone crafting, but he laid that thought aside and wanted to help him.
"Well, now, that's a granite stone figure. It's about as heavy and dense as ya need. It's a good one at that." He said, giving permission for Kavene to use that stone.
"But first, come with me. We'll need to go over the tools again and make sure you know what to use with the techniques." He said grinning. He knew that the tools lessons wasn't as fun as the other lessons, such as working with the hands, but it was essential to the foundation of stone crafting. He wouldn't have it any other way.
As they made their way into the shop, Boris motioned for Kavene to follow him to the tool table, where he kept most of his equipment.
"All right, me lad, my stone carving tools fall into three basic categories: Percussions, chisels, and Abrasives. Depending on the stone you use, you might need all three categories, or ya might need one or two. Depends, really. For our stone out in the yard, we'll use all three."
Boris reached down and grabbed a small paper chart.
"Here's a little diagram for your reference. Listen as I go over the three types." Boris gave the paper to Kavene.
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Basic stone carving tools fall into three types:- Percussion tools — for hitting
such as mallets, axes, adzes, bouchards and toothed hammers.such as lettering chisels, points, Pitching tools, and claw chisels. chisels in turn may by hand held and hammered.such as carborundum blocks, drills, saws, grinding and cutting wheels.
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"Now, tell me, Kavene, why is the knowledge of these tools so important to this trade?" He asked.
"And what, if any, circumstances might we find where one or two of these categories are not used?"
Boris continued to straighten his tools on the table as he listened to Kavene answer.